In this research, variant selection of martensite transformed from ultrafine-grained (UFG) austenite fabricated by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process and subsequent annealing was investigated with respect tomorphology of parentaustenitic phase. The results show that the original shape of austenite grain is very effective factor in determiningthe preferred variants of martensite transformed...

The Indirect Tension Test (IDT) is frequently used for evaluation of asphalt material viscoelastic creep properties. With the increased use of finer aggregate gradations and polymer modified asphalt binders in asphalt materials, crushing can occur under the narrow loading heads. The new specimen configuration proposed has a trimmed area under the loading heads, creating a “flattened-IDT.” This ...

Image analyzing interferometry is used to study the details of the shapes and coalescence of condensing drops of 2-propanol on a quartz surface. The measured thickness profiles give fundamental insights into the transport processes within the drop and its evolution from asymmetric to symmetric shape. The results show the presence of a thin flat film adjacent to the condensing drops and the adso...

In tightly packed tissues, a cancer cell’s motility is linked to the shape of cell and its nucleus.

In the seL4 microkernel and other capability-based OSs, the right to use resources is managed using abstract capabilities (i.e., tokens). Capability systems for fungible resources such as memory are well understood, but it has proven difficult to integrate time—i.e., real-time scheduling—into this model, since timeliness (i.e., system-wide schedulability) is a property that is inherently diffic...

It has previously been shown that a soft mattress lessens the degree of head flattening that occurs in preterm infants in the early weeks of life. A follow up study of 31 infants of < 32 weeks' gestation found head flattening had resolved by 3-4 years of age, regardless of the type of mattress used in the neonatal period, and the children had heads similar in shape to full term controls.

In this paper, we consider the problem of avoidance of subword patterns in flattened partitions, which extends recent work of Callan. We determine in all cases explicit formulas and/or generating functions for the number of set partitions of size n which avoid a single subword pattern of length three. The asymptotic behavior of the resulting counting sequences turns out to depend quite heavily ...